You need to be taken to task.

1) You are late with the grain order. Our situation is in a desperate state.

2) You have not exhausted all sources (Sweden and others—even for small quantities).

3) There is no precise information: what can be procured locally at least, even at a very high price and in very small amounts.

Tighten all this up in the People's Commissariat strictly.

1921

Written not later than May 10

First published in 1932

in Lenin Miscellany XX

Printed from the manuscript